Saturday 6 November 2010

Perforce File Locked By Departed User

"Locked" and "checked out" are two different things which require two different operations to undo. As Peter G. said, an admin can unlock a file with the unlock command:

p4 unlock -f

However, to revert a file checked out by another user, you need to impersonate that user by passing their client (workspace name), host (computer name) and user names to the revert command, like so:

p4 -c theirclient -H theirhost -u theiruser revert filename

So if a Perforce user named jdoe has file foo.txt checked out in workspace ws1 on a host named joesPC, an admin can revert it with the following command:

p4 -c ws1 -H joesPC -u jdoe revert foo.txt


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